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i've heard it before, but is it a myth or not and if it does why does it?

2007-01-10 08:21:27 · 315 answers · asked by Raining on a Sunday 1 in Beauty & Style Hair

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no hair can not get thicker. it only feels thicker because you cut the hair blunt and it grows back that way until the hair gets thinner on the ends from wear. just like the hair on your head. does that make sense? a person only has so many follicles on their body. no more, only less if you loose that follicle.

2007-01-10 08:28:53 · answer #1 · answered by Shitty 2 · 122 17

I have had a shaved head for about ten years I have been a shaver for about 20 the short answer is not just no but heck no the reason for this is that the hair looks thicker because it is growing from an established root ... when a person uses a cream like Nair the hair comes out root and all so the new growth is a fine "baby" hair that comes from the skin these hairs are nearly always white and they color up as they grow. If you are looking to be rid of unwanted hair and you shave it you will have that hair shaft to deal with. the best bet for that is cosmetics or if you really want it to look gone you will just have to get it gone... by the way the hair on top of your head (and other strategic places you can guess what I mean) is on some really soft skin so the creams will be too harsh in most cases. If you want some more on this topic I have been on a down with hair kick for a while and I would be glad to help

2007-01-12 12:33:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

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2016-12-20 18:39:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

NO. It is a myth- seen this on myth busters. Ur hair does not grow in Thicker... The end of ur hair folicle is just cut straight and therefore grows back in like a stub... instead of on a point... thats why people dont get as "thick" looking results from methods that Remove the Total hair folicle.. like waxing or tweezers ... I guess one way of thinking of it is... think of a a regular hair cut.. U grow hair from the root.. so whatever thing u did the end of the hair... will stay that way... ur root is where growth stems from.. so when u shave and chop off the thin end of the hair.. only thing left is the thicker root area.. thus making it seem as though ur hair is thicker.. but no it is not

hope that helped

2007-01-12 02:17:32 · answer #4 · answered by Christal 3 · 1 0

No, it doesn't grow back thicker, but it LOOKS thicker. The ends of a strand of hair are tapered down to a point and the rest of it is thicker. When you shave, you're cutting off the thinner end and leaving the thicker part, which will be what you see as it grows out. So it's really still the same hair you shaved, just a different part of it.

2007-01-11 08:57:41 · answer #5 · answered by Vix 4 · 1 0

I think it appears thicker because when hair anywhere first starts to grow, the end of the shaft is very fine, the down or "peach fuzz" stage. Everything below that is regular thickness, so as hair continues to grow, it come out normal thickness. You still have the same number of follicles, so you don't get more hairs, so it isn't thicker in that sense. Just each strand is thicker than it was before you shaved the first time.

2007-01-13 04:27:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

i can only tell you my personal experience. For the last 25 years, i have been shaving one half of my face in the traditional manner, whilst the other side of my face i left to run feral, as it were!, Truely you can't imagine how long i've been waiting for someone to ask this question. . . Though my career in the circus was interesting and i did learn to ride a horse standing up.
The general consensus is YES the hairs removed through shaving do grow back thicker, but this is only half the story. The point is that by shaving you REMOVE the hairs, which was the aim in the first place.
the whys and hows are a bit like cutting grass or pruning trees. the act of cutting as opposed to pulling stimulates the growth with a vengance

2007-01-13 02:21:16 · answer #7 · answered by mat b 1 · 0 0

no. If it did then people would start shaving their heads when they started going bald to make the hair grow back darker and thicker! ;)

This belief probably stems from the perception that short hair seems to be tougher than longer hair. Hair expert Philip Kingsley recommends thinking of a bamboo cane: a long cane flexes easily, but the same cane cut short feels harder and tougher. Another reason for the belief resides with the naturally finer ends of uncut hair: compare the end of a long-lived hair with that of a hair recently cut or shaved, and you'll see the one is thicker than the other. That could lead the less-than-careful to conclude that the whole of the hair's shaft became thicker as a result of the hair's being cut (which it didn't) rather than to realize that shaving or cutting results in a blunt termination, whereas natural outgrowth concludes in a tapering.

The part of the hair we style is already dead. The living sections lie below the surface of the scalp. Cutting or shaving the extreme end of the dead section isn't going to have an impact on the parts that are alive. Go forth to shave and trim as much as you like; you will not be affecting the intrinsic nature of your hair.

2007-01-12 08:26:48 · answer #8 · answered by Grown Man 5 · 1 1

It's actually not. Your hairs are more triangular shaped, thicker on the op than the bottom. When you shave you shave off the top/thinner half and leave the thicker half. When the hair continues the grow the thicker hair is rised causing the appearance of hair to be thicker.

2007-01-11 15:17:09 · answer #9 · answered by Tiffany* 5 · 0 1

That is a myth. People believe this for two reasons: 1) The hair feels prickly when it starts to grow back in (because it's short) 2) The hair can sometimes appear darker and more visible if it's in a place where the former hair was bleached by the sun.

2007-01-11 17:40:16 · answer #10 · answered by Carrie J 2 · 1 0

It's true; because when you shave, the thicker part of the hair is still in your skin. It grows back, but because it has started out thicker, it will grow out thicker. It takes a while to see/feel a difference, but the longer or more often you shave, the hair gets progressively thicker and grows back faster. I could be wrong, I don't quite know for sure, but that's what I think. Some of these other answers seem pretty valid too!

Hope this helps! ;)

2007-01-11 11:21:24 · answer #11 · answered by mtngrl 6 · 0 3

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